Horn ok please..
[Horn ok please is basically a combination of Horn Please and OK, which are found written on trucks very commonly, mostly in a way that one can read it as 'Horn OK Please', though it's not one term. Here it works in a way like a truck driver's identity.]

Amal Malik and Armaan Malik are sons of Daboo Malik, who is Anu Malik's brother. This is the first time they have composed/sung for a film. Daboo earlier composed for Salman's Tumko na Bhool Paayenge, along with Sajid-Wajid. And now Amal and Armaan are sharing a Salman movie with Sajid-Wajid.

Chharahara (छरहरा) is a Hindi word, an adjective, which means slim, shaped up, not fat or in bad shape. Chharahari is the feminine word for the same, which can also sound like Chhareri, or Chareri, as you could also spell that.

For dhoop, i.e. sunshine, though, the word is still unique, and this is the first time someone has used it. Interesting usage of the word there by Kausar Munir. Maybe you could compare it with crisp, in a way.

The master of words is here again. He keeps writing as such, but somehow for Vishal Bhardwaj's movies, it gets special. Though in the last year he's written only for Vishal's movies. Directed by him, or at least produced by him. Anyway, this was not about whose-movie-is-it. This is about the song, that I love, and probably you do too.

First off, yes, the song does remind you of Dil to Bachcha Hai ji, because of some clear similarities. The song is sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, the words are utterly simple, though the meaning conveyed is deep, and most importantly, the music is quite minimalist.

The much awaited trailer of Highway is out and a song by Nooran sisters is there in the trailer itself. The song is quite difficult to get as they sing the Punjabi words quite fast, but here is what I could get, with a working translation. When the CDs come out, will make the corrections if required. Till then this should help enjoy the song.

A sweet preparation of betel leaf,
A length of Lahori (ladies') suits' cloth
The kitten hitting wood-planks,
[kitten is used for girl, hitting wood-planks is proverbial for having fun]
The firefly, jumping and meeting all,
She goes here and there in a moment..

The heart of Radhika is restless,
Mohan is there in Radha's heart,
The Mohan who's body is dark complexioned,
and whose eyes are both like seas of liqueur
The holder of rock, becoming the excursioner of forests,
the dark complexioned Krishna, plays his flute..
He's the flautist of Gokul,
on whose rhythm Radha dances
keeping on saying Giridhar, Giridhar..
Radha's Girdhar has come..
See, oh, the Girdhar of Radha has come,
See Radha, flute playing Girdhar has come..
See Radha..

Nami Daanam (Persian:نمی دانم) is a Persian (Farsi) language phrase which means 'I don't know.' In Persian, nami (نمی, not spoken as naami) is 'not', and daanam (دانم) is 'I'. And hence the meaning of the whole phrase comes out to be more than the sum of its parts - 'I don't know.'

The phrase is common and is used not only in Urdu but once in a while heard in Urdu-Punjabi filled Bollywood songs as well. It could be heard in Dhoom 3 song Kamli [meaning] as well.

There, a comment explains the meaning of the phrase Nami Daanam better. Here it is. Thanks Anonymous. Would have loved your name here.

Not quite right. 'Na' means no/not, 'mi' is the continuous tense marker, and 'daanam' mean 'I know,' coming from the infinitive form 'daanestan' (to know). 'Daanam' does not mean 'I,' rather it's the first person present conjugation of the verb. The full present tense conjugations are given below:

Ni main kamli kamli is a song of Dhoom 3, and the phrase means nothing but 'I've gone crazy, crazy.'

This seems to be the item number which could be compared to earlier crazy kiya re from Dhoom series. Getting crazy is part of Dhoom it seems, and this time they're doing it all in Punjabi, be it Malang [meaning] or kamli.

Hamri Atariya [meaning] pe aaja re Sanwariya. Vishal Bhardwaj composes, Gulzar writes the lyrics, Rekha Bharadwaj sings, and Madhuri Dixit dances to it. To top it, the song is based on an old thumri on raaga Sindhu Bhairavi. Now how could you not expect high from the song. But for me, despite the high expectations from it, the song still passes, and with quite flying colors. See if you like it too. The first song of Dedh Ishqiya [meaning].

I have tried my best to translate the song, but as may always be the case with Gulzar Saab's songs, there are so many nuances in the song that one might miss, so if there is anything that you think is missing, please let me know, and if I find something to add, I sure will. Thanks.

I sit adorned, as if in a punishment
[because the beloved is not coming]
I sit, having called him to my breaths,
where has the unknown gone?
I have kindled many lamps,
but the moth hasn't come to the balcony..
[a moth is expected to be attracted to lamps, and hence she kindles lamp.]

Ataari or Atari is used for an upper room or building on the roof of a house, that is, a penthouse. Also, the word can be used for an attic or a balcony.

In poetry, the word is mostly used for something which is open and can be reached in some way or the other without going inside the house, and also provides a view of the outside, and hence, the penthouse and balcony both meanings fit okay in the context.

Atariya is a more localized form of the word and is used to show a more rustic, local or old styled setting.

I was reading a review of R.. Rajkumar's music from one of my favorite websites, milliblog, and suddenly I realized that the review talked about music, and music alone. It didn't care how bad or good (the latter is hardly the case here) the lyrics were, and so I thought we probably needed somewhere to talk lyrics specifically, and hence, a Lyrics Review. I don't know if this is going to be a regular feature here, haven't thought about it, but felt like writing on this one and so here it goes.

The album has five songs, Gandi Baat, Saree ke fall sa, Mat Maari, Dhokha Dhadi, and Kaddu Katega to sab mein Bantega. If you don't yet know, just in case, it's full of cheap and vulgar lyrics, but the two need not necessarily and completely be bad, and that's what I am going to compare and contrast.

Q: For which song have YashRaj spent Rupees 5 Crore making it the most expensive song in Bollywood?

Q: Which song of Dhoom 3 is ONLY available in theaters?

Q: Which Bollywood song has a 48 year old actor doing aerial stunts in the dance sequence?

A: Malang.

Yes. Dum Malang Malang, or simply 'Malang' [meaning], is one of the best songs of Dhoom 3, for which Yash Raj Films have reportedly spent 5 crore rupees. Most of it on the shooting of the song of course. Also, YashRaj plans to release this song in full version ONLY in theaters, to increase the number of moviegoers. From the first look, the song is not only superb in Audio, the video of the song is really well, and that's the reason YRF thinks they'll be able to attract people to cinema halls in the name of this song, if nothing else. The stunts performed by Aamir and Katrina in the song are quite something. If not by the standards of dance reality shows, at least by the standards of Bollywood movies they're still big.

The song is sung by Siddharth Mahadevan along with Shilpa Rao, this being Siddharth's first song outside Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and his second film as a singer. The lyrics are written by Sameer.

Iftikhaar or Iftikhar [sometimes spelled as Iftekhaar/ Iftekhar] is an Urdu word and a quite common name among Muslims. Iftikhar simply translates to Pride in English, and 'Garv', or 'Gaurav' in Hindi.

Iftekhar was also the name of famous Hindi film character artist, known for his roles as police officer, in films like Zanjeer and Don, to name two.

Iftikhar is also the name of Naseeruddin Shah's character in the films Ishqiya and Dedh Ishqiya. He's called Khalujan by Arshad Warsi which means Uncle [Husband of Mother's Sister], Mausa in Hindi.

Siyaapa or Siyaappa is a Punjabi-Urdu word which means mourning, wailing, and is also used for creating a trouble or getting into a trouble as 'siyaapa paana'.

The word comes from siyaah which means dark. Since darkness or black is considered a symbol of sadness, the word came to mean mourning and trouble.

Total Siyappa is a Hindi film and the title would means 'all kinds of troubles' or as the makers of the film say 'Total chaos' or complete chaos. The film stars Pakistani actor Ali Zafar, with Yami Gautam and Kirron Kher who plays the role of a Punjabi mother and talks about siyappa a lot in the movie.

Once in a while, we see advertising that touches our hearts. Most of such advertising also has some heart touching music. Here is another advertisement in the list, this one by Google.

Both, the video and the song, are lovely. Music is created by Clinton Cerejo, Piyush Mishra is of course the singer, and the lyrics are written by Neelesh Jain, who is a creative director at Ogilvy and Mather. Do watch, and listen.

Dhokhadhadi, also written Dhokha dhadi [Devnagari:धोखाधड़ी] is a common Hindi-Urdu word which means cheating or fraud.

While 'Dhokha' means cheating, dhokhadhadi, almost the same in meaning, is used more for an act of cheating, mostly a bigger cheating, maybe an act in which there is some real money involved [considering that's the reason for maximum of frauds] and not generally something like a cheating in a board game. However, this is not a hard and fast rule, and one can use dhokha and dhokhadhadi interchangeably as well.

Naacho re means something like Hey, dance!, as re doesn't really have a meaning, but is used to address people in a relatively excited way. Naacho means 'Dance'. Here are the lyrics of the song, with the required part translated, which is quite small.

Misaal is a common Urdu word which means example, or to be a little better, exemplar. So an example of how something should be, an ideal, is called a misaal.

Hence, misaal-e-yaar would mean an exemplary lover, a lover that would be sung praises of.

The line, 'misaal-e-yaar ki main, misaalon ko palat doon' would mean, I will change the exemplars of an exemplary lover, i.e. I shall be such a good lover that no one else would be called the best, most exemplary lover, other than me.

By the way, Misaal-e-yaar is a relatively unheard term. Visaal-e-yaar, meeting with the beloved, is one of the more popular terms, which sounds almost the same except for one letter.

Gutthi is a Hindi word, which means an entangled mass of string. Mostly when Maanjha used for flying kites is made into a ball randomly and left, it gets stuck, and becomes a 'gutthi'. You could also call it a knot in a way.

Also, problems/mysteries that are difficult to solve are called Gutthi too.

As such the word Gutthi is not used as a name anywhere in the Hindi speaking region, but this features as the unusual name of unusual character performed by Sunil Grover on Comedy Nights with Kapil.

Khadkaana [also spelled as khadkana, kharkaana] is a Hindi/ Urdu word that is used for knocking, in a little informal way. The formal word for a knock is dastak, and hence formally knocking is called dastak dena.

However, khadkaana can be used not only for knocking but related acts or noises as well. For example, doors or windows hitting the frame or wall and the sound produced thereof can be called khadakna too. When windows make a noise due to wind, that again is known as khadakna.

In Comedy Nights with Kapil, Navjot Singh Siddhu usually says 'khadka do' or 'Khadkaao' for jokes or songs, which would loosely translate to 'knock it' or 'move it', which simply means that you can speak, or sing, as be the case. Still, it's an unusual usage for the word, probably never seen before in Hindi at least.

Taali is a clap in Hindi. Taali bajaana is the verb, which means 'to clap.' When you have to ask someone to clap, you say, taali bajaao, or taali bajaa, or taaliyaan bajaaiyay [the last one being in plural, respectful way].

However, Navjot Singh Siddhu, the man on Comedy Nights on Kapil and many comedy shows before that, has a different style of saying this thing. Instead of saying Bajao, he says 'thoko'. Thokna in Hindi means to strike, hit, most commonly to hammer, to drive something, like a nail, in with the hammer.

Another thing, instead of Taali Thoko, he says Thoko Taali. The order doesn't really change the meaning, but he just emphasizes the verb, the action more. That is the reason sometimes he just says thoko instead of complete 'thoko taali', too.

Babaji ka Thullu here means 'nothing'. A negative, comical nothing actually. Negative in the sense that Babaji ka Thullu is a nothing where you had expected something, or should have got something - something good, positive for you - but you got nothing instead. And comical because that's how it's used by Kapil Sharma, who invented the term, and now by others as well. In a way Babaji ka Thullu shows ironies where one gets nothing.

Now, let's get a bit literal (as though there is something to get literal here, all we'll get is babaji ka thullu).

The word Thullu here has no meaning. Babaji literally means grandfather, but is used to address old men with respect. It's also used to saints etc., and sometimes there may be opium/cannabis smokers among saints, somewhat like hippies. Here it's more like a saint only, though it doesn't add anything to the meaning really.

It is also said that the word thullu is used instead of Ghanta, which, though fine in meaning [ghanta literally means a big metal bell with a clapper inside, and makes a high pitched noise when rung], has a slang meaning these days which is penis. Ghanta is also used to mean 'nothing' these days, exactly the same as 'babaji ka thullu'.

By the way, one small but important thing here, since Kapil's 'sign' of babaji ka thullu looks a lot like a snake. Babaji ka thullu doesn't really have anything to do with a snake directly at least.

The adult part: Ghanta is a word that is sometimes used for a pen*s, and babaji's pen*s, which apparently just hangs, doing nothing, like a ghanta, and hence the name. So if you keep counting x=y and y=z like mathematics [which isn't exactly simple maths here, it's more literature, or maybe pulp fiction ;)], then you could say thullu means pen*s, but that's not simply so. However, all wouldn't agree with me, and some would even argue that a pen*s is also called a snake and hence the thullu's sign is a snake, as a comment does too. Well, that's for you to decide for yourself. For me, Babaji ka Thullu means.. well, babaji ka thullu!

To begin with, Moto Ghotalo is more like a Rajasthani (and maybe to an extent Gujarati) version of what would be Mota Ghotala, or bada Ghotala in Khadi Boli Hindi. [For the uninitiated, Khadi boli is the dialect of Hindi that was spoken in the Western UP/Delhi areas and has in time found prominence in most places, including Film Industry.]

So, moto ghotalo, or bada ghotala would in English be 'big scam', or 'big scandal'. Mota is also the word for 'big' in Gujarati.

Update: In Gujarati, Ghotalo is used for mistake, and so, in Gujarati, Moto ghotalo would mean 'Big mistake.' Though this was a relatively small one. :D

Now now, Vishal-Shekhar are actually bringing too much of local lingo into the songs [actually it can hardly ever be too much, it's always good to have some 'real' words there]. This one, though, should be among my favorites. No, I am not talking about Esha Gupta here. It's about the words, dhat teri ki.

The truth is, the words have been so common in my language, that I am at a loss of how to explain their meaning. But tryers winners, so let's try.

Dhat teri ki is something like 'shit man'.

Yep. That sounds kind of close, correct. Dhat is anyway like 'crap', though the word doesn't literally mean that (or anything else, for that matter). Teri ki would mean.. well, again teri would mean yours, and ki is absolutely redundant and has no business being here. But that's how it is. And yes, don't try and translate the pieces to make a phrase back, because I just realize it would come out as 'your shit'.

So just don't go there [or come back if you did, anyway] and believe me when I say dhat teri ki means something like 'shit man'. It's something you hear yourself saying when something doesn't turn out the way it's supposed to [and haven't yet taken to F words, actually].

Don't know what's a Chingam? Let's make it easier. This thing is also known as chewing gum in most places which are not villages and small towns of India, or should I say even Indian subcontinent. However, a huge population calls 'simply' calls it chingam (or chingum) and the word doesn't even have an alternative in local languages mostly so chingam serves as a multilingual word.

And chabaana is Hindi for chewing, so chabaa ke would mean, 'having chewed', or as it should mean, 'while chewing' though the former would be the more literal meaning.

I was listening to Jagjit Singh singing the famous ghazal aahista aahista, and there was this line, sawaal e wasl par unko udu ka khauf hai itna, that Jagjit ji began to explain. Here is the meaning for you.

Sawaal-e-wasl was the question of meeting. In his words, when you ask for a date, that is sawaal-e-wasl. Udu is a rival. In his words again, there is a villain in every movie, he is Udu, [or Udoo]. [I am guessing we're talking about movies which have a villain fighting for the girl.] He also tells us that even an enemy can be called Udu.

Khilaadi or Khiladi is a Hindi/ Urdu word which means a player, somebody who plays or participates in a game or sport.

Khiladi comes from the word 'khel' which is used for games and sports alike. Even though the word is most commonly used for players as in athletes etc., the word can be used in negative senses as well, for people who play 'games'. However, it's not common to use it for a player as in playboy, though nowadays since people try and translate things across languages, some such uses can be seen too.

Khiladi was the name of Akshay Kumar's first hit film and he's since acted in a number of films with the word 'Khiladi' in their names.

Toon, toonh, or Tooh as it's spelled by the makers of Gori Tere Pyaar mein, is a Punjabi word, more of an unofficial kind, which is used for bum, ass, backside, behind, whatever you call it. In fact the usage of the word here is cute kind, like sometimes tush is used.

Now if you would want to know what's an 'unofficial' kind of a word, let me tell you that the word is not easy to find in a dictionary, and I couldn't find it online or offline in a dictionary. However, the lyrics very clearly tell in the first line itself that the word is used for 'booty'. So looks like it's one of those words that pass on through generations unofficially, without being formalized. Also, words like 'toonh' would not have too high a possibility of being formalized I guess, so unless it gets more official, let's shake our toonhs unofficially. :D

For the sake of simplicity, the multiple tooh-tooh-tooh-tooh sounds are not translated. Tooh, better written as Toonh, is Punjabi for bum, or tush, or backside, to put it that way. And like many more words in Punjabi, sounds more lovable than bad.

Rangbaaz is an Urdu word which, with its commonness, permeated through languages and can be heard even in Bangla now.

Rang is color, and -baaz is a suffix that is used for someone doing something particular, for someone who is an expert at that particular thing. So literally it would be 'an expert at colors', but the word doesn't take the literal meaning of colors, but takes a figurative meaning, such that rangbaaz is someone who changes colors, colors of his personality in a way. So Rangbaaz in a sense is used for someone cunning, someone expert at changing his moods, ways or his complete demeanor.

Ramleela is a beautiful album composed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is composing music for an entire movie for the second time, after Guzaarish. The lyrics for the album are written by Siddharth and Garima, and though their names have not been seen before, the lyrics are good and you can even see some play on words in places, for example in Ram Chaahe Leela.

Besides, there is one traditional Gujarati song, Mann Mor Bani Thangat Kare, in the album too, which is a really beautiful number.

Here is a list of all the songs of the album. For translation of lyrics, click the song name.

Ram chaahe Leela, the first song of the album is a different one in many ways. It's a fast composition by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who's mostly done slow tracks, probably 'Udi' in Guzaarish being his fastest before this. It's a well written song with Hindi and English words of common usage but still maintaining a good standard with all the word plays (mostly yamak, using one word for two different meanings). And, it's one song that has a Gujarati Rap, and a pretty quick one.

The song is sung by Bhoomi Trivedi, a contestant from Indian Idol 5, who was known for her distinct voice and singing raps in various languages. Here is a translation of the lyrics.

[Disclaimer: The article is a discussion on usage of some slang words in a song, and hence contains some bad words.]

Yep. That's like an open invitation now. We're singing like that. That's the quality of our lyrics now. If you have it in you, stop us.

My first thought on the line was, 'Have I heard it right?'

And then I heard it again, and a few more times, and I knew it WAS indeed what Honey Singh was singing. Some comments on my blog tried to convince me it was 'Kaan' and not 'Gaand'. I don't know where the assumption came from. Whether it was people who read the lyrics on music channels [which pick many of their lyrics from popular lyrics websites many times, at times with mistakes, though in this case many websites have written clearly Gaand and one, a really popular one, says it's Kaan, but marks it with a star] or people who still had so much belief in our censor boards that they think the word cannot be Gaand and didn't believe their Kaans.

Nagaada, spelled mostly as Nagada [Devanagari:नगाड़ा] is a huge drum which is played as a bass instrument.

Other than being used as a musical instrument, Nagada was also used as a tool to help make announcements for kings in earlier times when there were no better means available to reach people, so that people could hear the voice of the huge drums even at a distance and pay attention. Nowadays Nagada is not easily seen, but is still played in some temples and traditional festivals.

The word Nagaada comes from a more refined Hindi word Nakkaara [नक्कारा]. A picture of nagaada being played by Shahid Kapoor in the song Nagaada Nagada is here.

Gandi Baat [Devanagari:गन्दी बात, Urdu:گندی بات] is a Hindi/ Urdu phrase which simply means 'bad thing'. The phrase is used in both Hindi and Urdu with almost equal ease and commonness.

Gandi baat is a phrase that is commonly spoken in families to kids when they do anything wrong, to tell them they're doing something bad which they shouldn't and so has a slight innocence attached to it.

Irshad is a common Urdu name, which means to guide, to permit, or permission.

Irshad Kamil [इरशाद कामिल,ارشاد کامل] was born as Mohammad Irshad, but he felt his name was incomplete, and wanted a weightier name. So, as per a Caravan Article, 'he pored over a dictionary with his mother to look for an appropriate word to complete his name, and discovered ‘Kamil’, which means complete'.

Since Irshad Means permission, Irshad Kamil would mean a complete or granted permission. However, it's more sensible to think of his name as Irshad, and Kaamil as his 'takhallus', a pen name adopted by an Urdu poet.

Irshad Kamil is one of the best lyricists of today's Bollywood. Beginning his career with Chameli, Shabd and then Socha Na Tha, he's given us songs like Tum se hi, Filmfare winning Ajj Din Chadeya, Isq Risk and Rabba Main to Mar Gaya Oye. However, his true breakthrough came when he worked on Rockstar, writing Sadda Haq, Filmfare winning O Naadan Parindey Ghar Aa ja, and ever-mystifying Jo bhi main kehna chahoon.

Here is a list of Irshad Kamil's songs which are translated on BollyMeaning. However, if you'd like to know the meaning of the name Irshad Kamil, where Kamil is his own choice, Click HERE.

Mor Bani Thangaat Kare [Gujarati:મોર બની થનગાટ કરે] is a traditional Gujarati song written by Gujarati poet and social reformer Jhaverchand Meghani, and sung by a number of people earlier, including Chetan Gadhvi and Ashit Desai.

The song, a version of Rabindranath Tagore's 'Navi Varsha' as per Mitixa, is a popular one in Gujarati literature. Thanks to Mitixa for providing the lyrics, although it's in Gujarati script.

The song is incorporated with almost the same traditional music in Ramleela, though the tempo of the song is increased to keep it interesting for the movie, while Osman Mir and Aditi Paul do a wonderful job at singing. Here is a translation of the song.

I always wanted to know where the words came from, what was the inspiration, what made a writer write those words that undermine the value of words themselves, and with such a simplicity, in such an admission, that it sounds like a very simple truth.

Ishq is love, and Dhishkyaun is a simulation of a gun's sound with mouth, like an onomatopoeia. So while Dhishkyaun is here used to signify the sound of a gun, ishkyaun is used as a portmanteau of Ishq and Dhishkyaun, making it signify 'fight with love'.

Hence, when the hero says yahaan ishqyaun wahaan dhishkyaun, he means that while he's fighting with love, or simply showing love, she's fighting with guns against him.

The idea also translates into a scene where Deepika shows a gun and Ranveer shoots with a pichkari, a water-gun.

This beautiful Ghazal by Bashir Badr was once sung by Mohammad Vakil, Saregama mega final winner of 1998. Here is a translation of the ghazal, including all the shers I could find, irrespective of the ones sung.

Touch me with your body,
Color me (in your color)
I have left the world for you
give me your own wisdom..

[A jogi, yogi, is a hermit, someone who has left the worldly pleasures, and jogan is the female counterpart. However, she has here left everything for the love of her beloved and asks her to impart his yog, in a way the wisdom, to her as well, so that she can completely leave the world and be just his.]

No, I was not going to write this post. But when I got a request from our Uzbek follower Said, and then I got one more comment asking for the meaning of the words, I decided to say it out loud.

Tattad Tattad doesn't mean anything.

On second thoughts, I wondered why someone would even name the song like that. I mean it was okay when Dhatad Tatad was a song, because the words were spoken properly and there wasn't any phrase more prominent in the song, but this could simply be titled as Raam ji ki chaal dekho. Maybe SLB has some good reason behind this, that average mortals like us aren't able to understand.

The nature of your's loving people
Youth would follow you
Your way is brave (enoughto be chosen)
Your style of walking has royalty in it
Bravery is seen in your vision
Every house praises you.
(House in the sense, all the people in that house)

Bebasi is a beautiful song sung by James. It's a song about helplessness, and some hope, though on the verge of leaving that hope. The song in its video features James too.

Another thing, since the film's producer and crew are decided that they want to use Taakeed as warning, the same meaning is used here in order to get the best meaning. For more detail on the word though, you can check Takeed Meaning or Takeed Doesn't Really Mean Warning.

Bulbule saans ke..
Saans ke doobte tairte..
Dhoondhein kinaara..

Bubbles of breath,
the bubbles, drowning and swimming,
they look for the shore..

That's an awesomely superb Tamil dance song that was popular not only in Tamil speaking regions but entire India. It could be, and sometimes still can be heard in North Indian dance parties, where people don't know the meaning of the song, but dance to the tune anyway. The utterly simple words of the 'mukhda' help it of course.

Finally the song is now remade in Hindi as Hum na chhodein todein phodein jo bhi hum se panga le. Not as simple, but still, the song is there in Hindi too now. For the lyrics and translation, you can check THIS POST.

Hum na chhodein todein phodein is the Hindi remake of popular Tamil song Apdi Pode Pode, which is actually from film Ghilli, and has been a chartbuster across India, even featuring in a Hindi advertisement of Motorola starring Abhishek Bachchan.

Seriously, that's the new spelling. I had written a post on the meaning long time back, but I was not expecting a double i stunt with Rajini sir's movie too. Looks like Superstition is going places these days.

Anyway, Kochadaiyan Ranadhiran was a Pandya king in the seventh century, who is known to have fought and won many battles against the Cheras, Cholas and Marathas among others.

But then, Kochadaiyan literally means 'a King with matted hair' as Ko means a King and Chadaiyaan means one with matted hair. So kochadaiyaan would be king with matted hair.

And then, with that name, Kochadaiyaan is also used for Lord Shiva sometimes.

And that's the name of Rajini sir's film. Kochadaiyaan. Or Kochadaiiyaan now.

The trailer begins with Imran's ironic dialog. Ironic because it seems he talking to the Kareena's father in the film, while Kareena is shown to be 'different', and not Imran.

He says, "Mere Andar Bahut kuch hai, jo meri age ke ladkon mein nahi hai." That is, "There is a lot in me, that is not there in boys my age."

He continues with, "Mere Appa agar yahaan hote, wo kehte," (my father would say, had he been here-) and there is a footage of his father commenting on him, saying "Kaala Dhabba, family ke naam par kaala dhabba". That is, you're a black spot, on the name of our family.

The next footage is Kareena in front of Bangalore's Freedom Park, where Anna Hazare's supporters gathered during his protests too. However, this is a generic protest, not mentioning Anna or anyone else.

Then there is a phrase written that reads, "The Hardcore Kraantee Queeen", that is, 'The hardcore revolution queen', kranti meaning revolution.

However, Kranti is written wrong here. It should be क्रांति, but they wrote क्रांती.

Heropanti is a made up kind of word, though people use it randomly. As such the word is made up of hero and suffix -panti, which is for -ness, or rather, a trait that someone shows. For example, someone who shows madness, is doing paagalpanti, paagal being mad.

So heropanti is hero-ness, basically showing off oneself as a filmy hero, and probably do all the action and drama that movie heroes do onscreen.

Dabba is a Hindi/ Urdu word which simply means box, a small box generally. It could be also any shape or design, up to a particular size even tin cans are called Dabba.

However, lunchbox is something for which the word is most commonly used. Khaane ka dabba [a box for food] or simply dabba, is what a lunchbox is called as in Hindi, Urdu and many other Indian languages.

Well, that's the under 18 version, the censored one. The movie was actually named Grand Masti because it sounds like Gaand Masti, which would literally mean 'Ass Fun', and is used as a slang, meaning cheap fun, something that is done for fun, but can land you in trouble. And hence the G*and Masti title.

Bajatey Raho or Bajaate Raho is kind of a double meaning phrase, though neither of the common usages is sexual.

Bajana as such means to play [an instrument, etc.], and hence, bajaate raho means keep playing, as in, keep playing the music.

However, the word bajaana is also used as a slang these days, which means to beat someone up, mostly figuratively, that is, to make someone reach a really bad state. The slang is basically a shorter form of 'band bajana' which would have the same meaning.

Nasha is a simple Hindi/ Urdu word which means intoxication, the state of feeling drunk as an effect of something.

Besides, any intoxicant also can be called nashaa in Hindi/ Urdu. And also, nasha karna becomes a verb, which means to have, consume an intoxicant. Nowadays drugging is also simply called 'nasha karna' sometimes, though nasha can generally include any type of intoxicant.

This is pure, simple, straightforward. Aashiqui means love. Love you fall in. Not the parent child kind of love, not ambiguous love, aashiqui means the love that runs 98.5% movies. You get the meaning.

As such, aashiqui is an Urdu word, and so is aashiq which means lover.

Well, I was searching if anyone really had given the meaning of taakeedein on the web and was disappointed to see that it was there, but it wasn't the right meaning.

A little more search told me that it was not just Miss Malini who went wrong, even the producer Anubhav Sinha went on to say that Taaqeed meant Warning and worse, warning in Urdu was taakeed. My guess is this is yet another case of falling in love with a fancy sounding Urdu word without knowing its exact meaning.

[The last such case I remember was dabangg, which arbaaz said meant fearless, though it's not the exact meaning of Dabangg. However, fearless was not too far from Dabangg. Also, dabangg is a Hindi word.]

No, there is absolutely nothing that Urdu could do about it. It's a beautiful language with words that sound just fascinating. But it's people who need to know what the word really means before using them at such big level.

Let me put my case forward.

First of all, I had an idea of what taaqeed/ taakeed means. But to avoid any doubt, I opened my dictionary [Oxford, Hindi-English] which had the word since it used to be kind of common. I remember hearing the word and some of its forms from my grandmother. Anyway, the dictionary says:

1. strict instruction; demand, request.
2. compulsion, coercion

taakeed karna: To enjoin, to instruct, to caution.

[Yep, finally the last one gets close.]

The second one, an Urdu Hindi dictionary says:

ताक़ीद - कोई बात ज़ोर देकर कहना, हठ, किसी बात का हुक्म देना।

i.e., Taaqeed - To say something with an emphasize, persistence/obstinacy, to order something.

And if that was not enough, checking with Google Translate [which is not a very reliable resource for tough words], Emphasis, force, stress when you try Urdu-English, and 'reminder' when you try Hindi-English.

As I said in the Explanation for Taaqeed, if you have to pay someone and he comes and asks you for the money repeatedly, he's doing taakeedein. To me, it's more of demand, less of warning. If he gets a gun, it'd be a different case though. ;)

If you still are confused about the word, you can search more, or simpler, go on to believe it means warning, but we've warned you, it does not.

Dhating actually isn't a standard word, though here it is used to express fun, the kind where you dance like anything, and without thinking of anything else. Naach of course means dance and hence dhating naach simply means dance with energy, dance uninterrupted.

Dhating can be considered equivalent to Dhinchak, Dhan te Nan, etc., which themselves don't have much meaning, but are used quite commonly.

The song Chaaron Taraf from John Day, performed by Strings, has some wonderful lyrics, with sadness and some anger in them too. The meanings and translation are here.

Chaaron Taraf literally means 'In all four directions'. So the actual meaning of the phrase would be 'everywhere' or 'all around', and for the ease of translation, here we'll use those only, not repeating the literal meaning.

Loneliness kept on increasing all around,
Destinations [also, buildings, same word for both] fell down everywhere..
The way all the paths of memories burned too,
bad luck was (roaming) free everywhere..
See how the lines of palms have all got removed,
horrors are habited everywhere..
Loneliness kept on increasing everywhere..